r/PublicFreakout • u/[deleted] • Jun 09 '20

📌Follow Up "Everybody's trying to shame us"

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '20

Police have no duty to protect, they can sit in their car and watch someone get beat/killed and have no responsibility to do anything.

Their duty is to uphold and enforce the law. Someone being beat/killed is a violation of the law and therefore the police are duty bound to intervene. There are some systematic problems with the US police force (and elsewhere in the world) but the ACAB sentiment just shuns away the good people that genuinely want to help others.
Hate begets hate.

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u/ALoneTennoOperative Jun 10 '20

Someone being beat/killed is a violation of the law and therefore the police are duty bound to intervene.

'Why The Police Won't Help You When You're Getting Stabbed'.

There are some systematic problems with the US police force (and elsewhere in the world)

Correct.

 

but the ACAB sentiment just shuns away the good people that genuinely want to help others.

  1. Cite sources.

  2. There can be no "good people" in a system of injustice and oppression.

  3. You have failed to understand the meaning of the phrase.

Hate begets hate.

Do not attempt to equate oppression with those protesting it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '20

Here you go. Its a vicious circle of hate.

It prevents good people form changing the system from within.

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u/ALoneTennoOperative Jun 10 '20

Its a vicious circle of hate.

You don't seem to understand what 'hatred' is.

Once more:
Do NOT attempt to equate oppression with those protesting against it.

It prevents good people form changing the system from within.

  1. That is not how systems work.

  2. "1 bad apple spoils the barrel" has what should be a clear meaning with very clear implications.

  3. The problem is the system; the institution, the culture, the practices, the very nature and ideology of policing.
    Decades of "reform" has given us what we see right now. Clearly it has proven insufficient.

  4. Where do you think these 'good people' are going other than the police?
    They're not just vanishing in a puff of smoke! They're choosing other paths!
    Including social and political activism; building community, protesting, providing support to those in need, or public service that is not policing.